Look who we've #CrossedOff our shopping list for 2016

Posted by Caitlin Roper4282sc on November 18, 2016

It's that time of year again, already! As Christmas approaches, retailers are kicking it up a notch competing for your business, and Collective Shout releases our annual blacklist of corporate offenders who have sexualised girls and objectified women throughout the year. These companies do not respect women, they have not changed their ways, and they don't deserve your money.

You can speak with your wallet and show these companies that sexually exploiting women and girls is bad for business.

A long time promoter of major porn industry brand Playboy, BNT's advertising has become increasingly pornographic, with the store forced to pull a porn-inspired video advertisement in stores nation wide this year.

After attracting nationwide criticism over their ads using dominatrix women to sell car parts and accessories, the chain continues to demean women through TV commercials depicting them as mindless bimbos.

For years, General Pants have used sexploitation to sell clothing, with change rooms plastered with pornographic imagery, live pole dancing displays and a wide range of sexually objectifying in store advertising.

Honey Birdette is a sex shop masquerading as a high end lingerie store. The store continually flouts advertising standards and codes with its pornographic advertising while promoting the objectification of women as empowerment.

Guess has a habit of sexually objectifying women to sell products. Someone tell them it's 2016.

Brands that sell global pornography brand Playboy.

Playboy is not just a magazine, but owner and distributor of various porn channels featuring violent and dehumanising hardcore content. The following are retailers that promote and profit from Playboy's misogyny:

You can defend their right to childhood

Everyday our young people are exposed to more brands continuing to sexualise girls and objectify women. You can bring change to this sexploitation, stop companies from degrading women and prevent its devastating effects on young people.